..Baseline cytokine levels decreased during the 2-week trial by more than 50%. In conclusion, transforming growth factor-beta1 release and likely downregulation of its expression may constitute novel pharmacological effects of sulodexide...

..Risk factors for its occurrence are equivocal; the infection may well be transmitted by parenteral and feco-oral routes. SEN virus is not directly responsible for liver damage in maintenance HD patients...

..He was uneventfully treated with HD for 6 weeks and then reverted to CAPD. The widely available and inexpensive SLX may be a new, effective and potentially promising alternative anticoagulant in HD patients with HIT II...

..We studied whether they could be associated with each other, SOX markers, prevalence of viral hepatitis, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and their laboratory surrogates in maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients...

..172); no thrombotic or other adverse effects were observed. In conclusion, the above high-dose IV iron sucrose supplementation does not cause evident endothelial or other tissue injury in patients with CRF, and is clinically safe...

..The release of tissue factor pathway inhibitor during HD is not only due to heparin injection but also to the contact between blood and artificial dialysis membrane, and to HD-activated hemodynamic forces...

Different effects of enoxaparin and unfractionated heparin on extrinsic blood coagulation during haemodialysis: a prospective study

..351), CAL loss (P = 0.172), number of teeth (P = 0.279) or patient age (P = 0.362). Our findings suggest that salivary HGF concentration may be a novel marker of symptomatic periodontal disease, and that it warrants further validation...

..v. sulodexide dose per kg of body weight. This study shows that sulodexide has a novel, remarkable and plausibly biologically important stimulating effect on the release of pleiotropic hepatocyte growth factor in humans...

Chronic viral hepatitis C, oxidative stress and the coagulation/fibrinolysis system in haemodialysis patients

..The aim of the present study was to establish whether the presence of chronic viral hepatitis (PVH) could be implicated in the elevation of oxidative stress (SOX) and haemostasis system in haemodialysis (HD) patients...

Enoxaparin but not unfractionated heparin causes a dose-dependent increase in plasma TGF-beta 1 during haemodialysis: a cross-over study

..Furthermore, PD is a significant health problem in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF). The role of HGF in the development of PD in this specific population was not a subject of research so far...

..We studied the relationship between plasma and urinary levels as well as renal biopsy immunostaining of TF and TFPI antigens with reference to some clinical parameters in human chronic non-crescentic GN...

Hemoglobin level is an important determinant of acid-base status in hemodialysis patients